1. The expectation of a random variable X is defined as:

P1X1 P2X2 ...+ PkXk

P1X1 PIX2 +... P1Xk

P1X2 P2X2 ...+ PkX2

None of the above

2. The measure of variation that is least affected by extreme observations is:

Range

Mean Deviation

Standard Deviation

All the above

3. Which of the following is not correct?

Standard deviation can never be negative

Variance of a random variable is always non-negative

If mean of a Poisson distribution is then the standard deviation is 3

If mean and standard deviation for a particular normal distribution are known, then we can compute probabilities from standard normal table

4. Area under standard normal curve within range, mean ± 2 standard deviation, is about:

99.5%

99.7%

95.5%

68%

5. How do you differentiate z-statistics from t-statistics?

They are same

Z-statistics can be calculated with known population parameters but t-statistics can be calculated with sample parameters

t-statistics can be calculated with known population parameters but z-statistics can be calculated with sample parameters

Both t-and Z-statistics can be calculated with known sample/population parameters

6. How do you test auto-correlation in a multivariate regression analysis?

Durbin Watson statistics

McNemar's chi square statistics

Friedman test statistics

All the above

7. Which one of the following is not a non-parametric test?

t-test

Sign test

Chi-square test

Run test

8. With which one of the following techniques communality is associated?

Univariate analysis

Factor analysis

Case studies

SWOT analysis

9. The variable which impacts the relationship between an independent variable and a dependent variable is known as

Antecedent variable

Precedent variable

Predictor variable

Control variable

10. The process not needed in Experimental Research is

Observation

Manipulation

Controlling

Content Analysis

11. Ex Post Facto research means

The research is carried out after the incident

The research is carried out prior to the incident

The research is carried out along with the happening of an incident.

The research is carried out keeping in mind the possibilities of an incident.

12. Which one of the following is an indication of the quality of a research journal?

Impact factor

h-index

g-index

i10-index

13. Which of the following sampling methods is based on probability?

Convenience sampling

Quota sampling

Judgement sampling

Stratified sampling

14. Arrange the following steps of research in correct sequence:

1. Identification of research problem

2. Listing of research objectives

3. Collection of data

4. Methodology

5. Data analysis

6. Results and discussion



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15. The population information IS called parameter while the corresponding sample information is known as

Evidence

Inference

Measure

Statistic

16. "A diagram speaks more than 1000 words." The statement means that the teacher should

use diagrams in teaching.

speak more and more in the class.

use teaching aids in the class.

not speak too much in the class.

17. The approach relies on direct observation and experimentation in the acquisition of new knowledge

Empirical

Deductive

Inductive

Logical

18. Concept is of two types

Abstract and Coherent

Concrete and Coherent

Abstract and concrete

None of the above

19. In testing a Hypothesis the common errors are

Type A and B

Type I and II

Type X and Y

None of these

20. A Blue print of Research work is called

Research Problem

Research design

Research tools

Research methods

21. The missing number in the series: 24, 60, 120, 336, is

240

220

280

210

22. The number of observations in a group is 40. The average of the first 10 members is 4.5 and the average of the remaining 30 members is 3.5. The average of the whole group is

4

15/2

15/4

6

23. Given that in a code language, means 'day is means 'warm spring' and means 'spring is sunny'; which digit represents

3

2

4

5

24. If the proposition "All men are not mortal" is true then which of the following inferences is correct? Choose from the code given below:

1. "All men are mortal" is true.

2. "Some men are mortal" is false.

3. "No men are mortal" is doubtful.

4. "All men are mortal" is false.

Code:

1,2 and 3

3 and4

1,3 and 4

1and 3

25. If Ram knows that y is an integer greater than 2 and less than 7 and Hari knows that y is an integer greater than 5 and less than 10, then they may correctly conclude that

y can be exactly determined

y may be either of two values

y may be any of three values

there is no value of y satisfying these conditions

26. Ananya and Krishna can speak and follow English. Bulbul can write and speak Hindi as Archana does. Archana talks with Ananya also in Bengali. Krishna can not follow Bengali. Bulbul talks with Ananya in Hindi. Who can speak and follow English, Hindi and Bengali

Archana

Bulbul

Ananya

Krishna

27 30

Following table provides details about the Foreign Tourist Arrivals (FTAs) in India from different regions of the world in different years. Study the table carefully and answer questions from 27 to 30 based on this table.

Region Number of Foreign Tourist Arrivals
2007 2008 2009

Western Europe 1686083 1799525 1610086
North America 1007276 1027297 1024469
South Asia 982428 1051846 982633
South East Asia 303475 332925 348495
East Asia 352037 355230 318292
West Asia 171661 215542 201110
Total FTAs in India 5081504 5282603 5108579

27. Find out the region that contributed around 20 percent of the total foreign tourist arrivals in India in 2009.

Western Europe

North America

South Asia

South East Asia

28. Which of the following regions has recorded the highest negative growth rate of foreign tourist arrivals in India in 2009?

Western Europe

North America

South Asia

West Asia

29. Find out the region that has been showing declining trend in terms of share of foreign tourist arrivals in India in 2008 and 2009.

Western Europe

South East Asia

East Asia

West Asia

30. Identify the region that has shown hyper growth rate of foreign tourist arrivals than the growth rate of the total FTAs in India in 2008.

Western Europe

North America

South Asia

East Asia

31. A person has to buy both apples and mangoes. The cost of one apple is Rs. 7 whereas that of a mango is Rs. 5. If the person has Rs. 38, the number of apples he can buy is

1

2

3

4

32. In a certain code GALIB is represented by HBMJC. TIGER will be represented by

UJHFS

UHJSF

JHUSF

HUJSF

33. In a certain cricket tournament 45 matches were played. Each team played once against each of the other teams. The number of teams participated in the tournament is

8

10

12

14

34. P is the father of Rand S is the son of Q and T is the brother of P. If R is the sister of how is Q related to T

Wife

Sister-in-law

Brother-in-law

Daughter-in-law

35. Starting from point Ajit walks 14 metres towards west, he then turns to his right and walks 14 metres and then turns to his left and walks 10 metres. He again turns to his left and walks 14 metres and reaches to the point E. The shortest distance between A and E is

38 meters

42 meters

52 meters

24 meters

Directions for questions 36 to 40: In each of the following questions, there is a certain relationship between two given words on one side: and one word is given on other side of: while another word is to be found from the given alternatives, having the same relation with this word as the words of the given pair bear. Choose the correct alternative

36. Pulp: Paper: Hemp:

Yarn

Rope

Cotton

Silk

37. Influenza: Virus: Typhoid:

Bacteria

Parasite

Protozoa

None of the above

38. Commodore: Navy: Brigadier:

Captain

Airforce

Army

None of the above

39. Genuine: Authentic: Mirage:

Illusion

Reflection

Image

None of the above

40. Car: Garage: Aeroplane:

Port

Depot

Harbour

Hangar

41. If a firm is practicing the firm is training and effectively, motivating its customer contact employees and all of the supporting service people to work as a team to provide customer satisfaction.

Cross Marketing

Up Marketing

Interactive Marketing

Internal Marketing

42. is the marketing and financial value associated with a brands strength in overall market.

Brand Extension

Brand Loyalty

Brand Equity

None of these

43. Marketing means serving a small market not served by competitors.

Relationship

Niche

Guerilla

none of the above

44. The four unique elements to services include:

Independence, intangibility, inventory, and inception

Independence, increase, inventory, and intangibility

Intangibility, inconsistency, inseparability, and inventory

Intangibility, independence, inseparability, and inventory

45. A consumer contest is an example

Personal selling

Sales promotion

Advertising

Indirect selling

46. If the tasks of a receptionist was increased to provide a challenge, it IS known as

Job Rotation

Job Enlargement

Job Enlargement

Job Design

47. Vestibule training is a method of

Off the job training

On the job training

Perspective of training

Evolution of training

48. One of the current trends in Compensation Management is

Broadbanding

Executive remuneration

Management remuneration

Salary Wage increases

49. Fiedler proposed the

Contingency model of leadership

Path goal theory of leadership

Group and exchange theory of leadership

Autocratic -participative theory of leadership

50. Hiring someone outside the company to perform tasks that could be done internally is known as:

Outplacement.

Contracting.

Outsourcing.

Employee leasing.

51. When employees receive a higher rate of pay for all of their work if production exceeds a standard level of output, they are working under which incentive plan?

Differential piece rate

Standard piece rate

Exception bonus rate

Individual rate pay

52. The method of training used to train personnel to operate aircraft, spacecraft, and other highly technical and expensive equipment is the:

Simulation method

Classroom method

Vestibule method

Apprenticeship method

53. Organizations are best described as:

Groups of buildings in which people are paid from the same budget.

Groups of people who work interdependently toward some purpose

Closed systems that operate without consideration of space, time, or people.

Any entity that can exist without the need to acquire knowledge.

54. Organizational events are usually studied from which of these three common levels of analysis?

Team, global, and organizational

Contingency, universal, and systematic

Acquisition, sharing, and use.

Team, individual, and organizational

55. All of these are part of the "Big Five" personality dimensions except

Locus of control.

Agreeableness.

Openness to experience.

Emotional stability.

56. A manager uses the following equation to predict monthly receipts: Yt 40,000 150t. What is the forecast for July if t 0 in April of this year?

40,450

40,600

42,100

42,250

57. Assuming no safety stock, what is the re-order point given an average daily demand of 50 units, a lead time of 10 days and 625 units on hand?

550

500

715

450

58. The advantages of standardization include:

I. early freezing of the design.

II. Fewer parts to deal with in inventory.

III. Reduced training cost and time.

IV. More routine purchasing.

II

IV

II, III

II, III, IV

59. A chase demand strategy should be followed when

Worker skill qualifications are high

Unemployment rates are low

Inventory costs are high

All of the above

60. Which of the following is an objective function for the information provided. A trader sells chairs and tables at Rs 230 and Rs 580 each respectively and he procures them at Rs 180 and Rs 480 respectively

Maximise Z 230 x1 480 x2

Minimise Z 180 x1 580 x2

Minimise Z 230 x1 580 x2

Maximise Z 50 x1 100 x2

61. Who propounded 'Theory

Douglas McGregor

Abraham Maslow

William Ouchi

M.P.Follet

62. A small group of employees in the same work area or doing similar type of work who voluntarily meet regularly for about an hour every week to identify, analyze and resolve work related problems to improve quality, productivity and the total performance of the organization. What is being referred to?

Quality Circus

Quality Control

Quality Commitment

Quality Circles

63. Who wrote the book titled "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People"?

Stephen Covey

Peter Senge

Stephen Robins

Philip Covey

64. A lot of traditional 20th century sales theory and training was influenced by the 1937 book 'How to Win Friends and Influence People'; who wrote it?

Dale Carnegie.

Tom Peter

Peter Drucker

Howard Gardner

65. Brainstorming is a technique among the members of a group to generate as many ideas possible without assessing their value.

True

False

None

Both

66. Which of the following organizations has a dual chain of command?

Matrix Organization

Functional Organization

Virtual Organization

Cluster Organization

67. Competitive advantage based on the creation of opportunities using internal resources is characterized by which approach/view?

Positioning approach

Outside-in approach

Resource-based view

The knowledge-management approach

68. The principal-agent problem is concerned with:

Procurement

The separation of ownership from control in firms

How to control a firm's distributors and dealers

Corporate social responsibility

69. The "balanced scorecard" supplies top managers with a view of the business.

Long-term financial

Complex

Routine

Comprehensive

70. A joint venture can be defined as:

Two firms collaborate together on a specific project

One firm licenses its intellectual property to another firm

Two firms merge together

Two firms come together to form a third, legally separate firm

71. Which of the following are NOT likely to be sources of relatedness between businesses?

Similarities in size

Operating in industries with similar success factors

Similarities in production technologies

Selling to customers with similar demographic characteristics

72. The sustainable growth rate can be expressed as:

The percentage change in retained earnings assuming a steady state model where the retention rate is held constant.

Being positively related to the firm's target return on equity and negatively related to its target retention rate.

The maximum annual percentage increase in sales that can be achieved based on target operating, debt, and dividend-payout ratios.

Being negatively related to the firm's target return on equity and positively related to its retention rate.

73. All of the following influence capital budgeting cash flows except

Choice of depreciation method for tax purposes

Economic length of the project

Projected sales (revenues) for the project

Sunk costs of the project

74. The probability in subsequent periods that is conditioned on what has occurred earlier is referred to as the

Initial probability

Conditional probability

Joint probability

None of the above answers are true

75. Modigliani and Miller argue that the dividend decision

Is irrelevant as the value of the firm is based on the earning power of its assets

Is relevant as the value of the firm is not based just on the earning power of its assets

Is irrelevant as dividends represent cash leaving the firm to shareholders, who own the firm anyway

Is relevant as cash outflow always influences other firm decisions

76. Which of the following statements about arbitrage is correct?

A risk averter will arbitrage because profits can be made with no risk and no investment.

Arbitrage opportunities continue to exist in equilibrium.

A risk averter will never arbitrage because of the risk involved.

A risk seeker loves to arbitrage because he or she is willing to pay a premium to buy risky assets.

77. Which of the following terms describes strategies designed to ensure that the market values of assets always exceed the market values of liabilities by a specified amount?

Contingent immunization.

Income immunization.

Duration matching immunization.

Price immunization.

78. Which of the following is not correct?

The graphical approach to solution of lpp's can't handle problems with more than three variables

A feasible solution to an lpp is one that satisfies at least one of the constraints of the problem

An optimum solution to an lpp is a feasible solution which optimizes the objective function

The feasible region is also termed as the solution space

79. Using graphical method, the optimum solution of the LPP of maximising z 10x 15y subject to constraints 2x y 26, x 2y 28 and y 5 and x 0 is obtained as:

x 8 and y 10

x 6 and y 1

x 6 and y =10

x 8 and y 8

80. A necessary and sufficient condition for a basic feasible solution to a minimization LPP to be an optimum is that (for all

Zj-Cj

Zj-Cj 0

Zj -Cj 0

Zj-Cj 0 or Zj-Cj 0